Google Indexing My Search Result Pages!
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I just realised that Google has over 7000 pages indexed for my website (there's supposed to be about 200), so investigated and found out that Google has indexed search result pages that have somehow got generated within my site (I think it's caused by a plugin I was using, now removed).
Obviously this means I now have nearly 7000 pages that say "sorry we couldn't find what you were looking for" etc. I've installed the meta robots plugin to "noindex" search results, so hopefully that will clean up the issue. I worry because the 250 or so backlinks or so I have pointing to my site are going to be somewhat diluted due to the ratio of pages indexed vs. incoming links.
Just wanted to give everybody a heads up to check if this is happening on your site. What I really want to do is get rid of those 7000 search result pages, anybody know how to do that?
Obviously this means I now have nearly 7000 pages that say "sorry we couldn't find what you were looking for" etc. I've installed the meta robots plugin to "noindex" search results, so hopefully that will clean up the issue. I worry because the 250 or so backlinks or so I have pointing to my site are going to be somewhat diluted due to the ratio of pages indexed vs. incoming links.
Just wanted to give everybody a heads up to check if this is happening on your site. What I really want to do is get rid of those 7000 search result pages, anybody know how to do that?
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